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Dr Sasha Somasekar (Director)
Dr Somasekar’s experience comprises work in various settings within and outside the NHS. She has worked in NHS primary care settings with mild to moderate difficulties, and with more complex psychological difficulties in NHS secondary care. She has worked with a number of difficulties including anxiety, depression, trauma, relational challenges, anger, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, personality difficulties, domestic violence and many others.
She also has an educational background and work experience in child psychology, which gives her unique insight and knowledge in understanding how events and experiences can shape childhood and influence adult life.
Qualifications
- Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology
- HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
- Chartered member of the British Psychological Society
- MSc. Mental Health: Psychological Therapies
- MSc. Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Psychological Practice
Specialist Training
- Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP)
- Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP)
- Certificate in Supporting Pregnancy and Infant Loss
- Certificate in Perinatal Mental Health
- Certificate in Compassion Focused Therapy for Trauma
- Certificate in Group Therapy
Dr Vanessa Contreras-Negretti (Director)
Dr. Contreras- Negretti’s clinical experience spans a range of different services within the NHS as well as running her own private practice in East London. She has experience working in Clinical Health within the Occupational Health Service at Queen’s and King George Hospitals, providing psychological therapy to all hospital staff. She has worked in IAPT services in primary care, dealing with mild to moderate difficulties, with a wide variety of presentations such as longstanding problems with depression, general anxiety, panic, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, social anxiety, pain management difficulties and PTSD.
Her work in secondary care services has focused on more complex and enduring psychological issues, often presenting with an element of vulnerability or risk. In this capacity, she has generally worked in the area of mood, anxiety and personality difficulties with presentations such as treatment-resistant depression, long-standing OCD, complex trauma and personality disorders with a developmental and historical origin, among others.
Qualifications
- HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist.
- Chartered member of British Psychological Society (CPsychol)
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)
- Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology
- EMDR Europe and EMDR UK Accredited Practitioner, member of EMDR UK.
- Level 1 (CORE) EMDR Child & Adolescent Training.
- Masters Degree in Psychology
- Master’s Degree in Investigative and Forensic Psychology
- Master’s Degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology
- BA Linguistics
Specialist Training
- Working with EMDR and Dissociative Parts: Optimal Integration of Parts Models (EMDR Association East Anglia).
- EMDR & Parts work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing (PESI).
- Level 1 (CORE) EMDR Child & Adolescent Training.
- Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 1&2 (CCTP/CCTPII) (PESI).
- Complete IFS Therapy Immersion: Integrating the Internal Family Systems Model Across Clinical Applications (PESI).
- Intensive Trauma Treatment Course (PESI).
- Certificate Course in Group Therapy (PESI)
